It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
The Green Fairy: I'm the Green Fairy... The hills are alive, with The Sound Of Music.
Chuck Aule: Nice music, who is that, Brahms? Teddy Daniels: [pauses] No. It's Mahler.
Kurt: I wonder what grass tastes like.
Liesl: [upon receiving her first kiss from Rolfe] Wheeeeeeeeeee!
Willy Wonka: It's a musical lock. [begins playing Mozart's 'Marriage Of Figaro'] Mrs. Teevee: Rachmaninoff.
I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.
I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.
My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.
The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.
I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.
The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
